A Cicada passes eggs through its ovipositor.

Cats are feline, dogs are canine, and sheep are ovine.

A pigs snout is called a gruntle.

When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a dzo.

A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.

Goats produce cashmere.

The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the bumblebee

A 'bitch' is more likely to bite you than a male dog.

A turkey's furcula better known as a wishbone.

A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.

The typical housefly cruses at 8 km/hr.

The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.

In 1876, Sir Henery Wickham transported 70 000 Rubber tree seeds from Brazil to Kew Gardens in London.

The compound carotene gives the carrot its colour.

Bananas grow pointing upwards.

Giraffes can not swim.

Kiwi eggs, when not completely white, are tinged with green.

The cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Cows have 4 stomachs.

The flying fish has been known to glide up to 90 metres.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

A moth has no stomach.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.

1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.

Oranges cease to ripen after picking.

More people are killed each year from bees than snakes.

The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

Midges beat their wings about 1000 time every second.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.

A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

When food is short a ribbon worm can eat 95% of its own body weight, and still survive.

The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.

Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them.

The walking catfish can live on land.

The white of an egg is the albumen.

96% of a cucumber is water.

The daisy got its name from the corruption of the words ' Day's eye'.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy testicles.

Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.

A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.

In 1978 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation estimated that 'all the tea in China' amounted to approx. 356,000 tonnes.

The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

Only the male nightingale sings.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.

A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.

Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.

When young, Black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

The Barbary Apes in Gibraltar are well protected by the resident British. The tradition is, when the apes leave the rock, the British will not be far behind.

Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

A 2 year old horse has 6 incisors.

The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.

The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.

According to the United Nations F.A.O. yearbook 1991, Australia had a population of 17,800,000 people compared to 162,774,000 sheep [ 9.25 : 1 ], and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people compared to 57,000,000 sheep [16.75 : 1].

In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

Sloths spend 75% of their lives asleep.

During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.

About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.

Camels are born without humps.

Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to copulate.

Crocodiles are colour blind.

Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.

Dogs are colour-blind.

Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

Baby eels are elvers.

Worms are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of sexual organs on their bodies.

Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in their first two years.

There are more insects in the world than all other animals together.

On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.

A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.

Spiders' webs are a traditional natural clotting agent, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood.

The orang-utan's warning signal to would be aggressors is a loud belch.

About a quarter of the people bitten by dogs seem to be bitten by German Shepherd dogs.

The Emu gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich.

Squid can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.

A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds.

Although Cleopatra was meant to have died after a bite from an asp, the species does not exist in Egypt.

The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

An Elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.

The largest shark ever caught with a rod was just less than seventeen feet long.

Cyanide is present in apple pips, but only in small doses.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Bees have 5 eyes.

A species of earthworm in Australia grow up to 3 metres in length.

The mullet fish only turns red after death.

The Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly three feet long.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.

Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies which are over eight times higher than any picked up by the human ear.

The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during mating.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

The smallest trees in the world are Greenland dwarf willows.

A myrmecologist studies ants.

The original source of the dye 'sepia' was the cuttlefish.

Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.

Only male canaries can sing.

The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.

When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.

The only wild camels in the world are found in Australia.

At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.

Crocodiles carry their young in their mouths.

Tarantula's can survive 2.5 years without food.

It has been estimated that there are something like twenty-three million cats in the U.S.

A sloth can move twice as fast in water as it can on land.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.

99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now extinct.

The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.

A dog has elbows.

Whales can't swim backwards.

Penguins can jump over 6 feet.

Lions have been exported to Africa by Windsor Safari Park in England.

An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about 27 kg

Crocodiles are responsible for over a thousand deaths a year by the Banks of the Nile.

The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.

The Moa bird of New Zealand, which became extinct four hundred years ago, was over ten feet tall.

Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.

The hippopotamus is born under water.

Catgut comes from sheep not cats.

Male cats have barbs on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal.

St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy round their necks.

The average porcupine has about 30,000 quills.

Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.

The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times thicker than a humans'.

A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.

Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.

Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to copulate.

Polar bears can run as fast as 40 km/h.

A python is capable of devouring a pig whole.

The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two hundred times a second.

Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink beer.

Cats were a sacred animal in Ancient Egypt, and when they died,people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect.

Rhinoceros horn, when powered, is believed in some countries to increase a persons sexual potency.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

An Anencephalous creature has no brain.

Within a pride of lions, 90% of the hunting is done by the females.

A large whale needs more than 2 tonnes of food a day.

Whales must move their entire body to change their line of sight.

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North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder.

In Russia, suppositories cut from fresh potatoes were used for quick relief of haemorrhoids.

A salt enema used to be given to children to rid them of threadworms.

Powdered Tea was once used as a snuff to stop bleeding noses.

A decoction of dandelion roots and leaves is an old remedy for dissolving urinary stones and gravel.

Comfrey (herb) baths were popular before the wedding night to attempt to repair the hymen and thereby apparently restore virginity.

The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the Adam's Apple.

Stroking the sole of the foot is used by doctor's to produce the Babinski effect.

Insulin is produced in the pancreas.

Acute hasopharyngitis is more commonly known as a cold.

Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea which may lead to blindness.

Oophorectomy is the surgical removal of the ovaries.

Sexually transmitted diseases are the major cause of preventable sterility in American men and women.

Sperm is the smallest single cell in a mans body.

Estragon protects against heart disease.

Hair, prompted by testosterone, grows faster in men in anticipation of sex.

An average, in America, three sex change operations are performed every day.

Artificial forms of birth control are condemned by the catholic church. The 'Rythem' [Rhythm] method is recommended by the church, as is abstinence

In 1977, Napoleon's penis was sold in Paris for about US $3 800 to an American urologist.

The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

In 1855, dentist Robert Arthur was the first to use gold to fill cavities.

The fleshy muscular organ joined to the hyoid bone is the tongue.

Quinine is an alkaloid extract of the bark of the Cinchona tree.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

An Eskimo would be ingesting toxic doses of Vitamin A if he ate a polar bears liver.

Smallpox is also known as variola.

The disease Tuberculosis, is best known as consumption.

Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries.

The fissure of Rolando, would be found in the human brain.

Iron deficiency causes the most common form of anaemia.

Red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.

The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.

The Mount of Jupiter and the Girdle of Venus are found on the palm of your hand.

The Auricularis muscles are used to move the ears.

The vaccine for smallpox was developed in 1798.

In the United States, 1982, the painkiller 'Tylenol' was spiked with cyanide.

The normal body temperature in 37° Celsius.

In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill . . . it took 8 holes.

The leading cause of death in the late 19th century was tuberculosis.

The rate of Quadruplets are 1 (set) in every 490 000 births.

A person suffering from polythelia has 3 nipples.

Clinophobia is a fear of beds.

A human sheds a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks.

The human brain is 80% water.

The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.

The nose continues to grow throughout your life.

Everyone's tongue print is different.

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

The most prescribed drug in the United Kingdom in 1985 was Valium.

The left side of the brain is usually responsible for the control of speech.

The space between two adjacent neurones is called the 'synapse'.

The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to prevent drunkenness.

Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 per gram.

The septum linguae is found on the tongue.

Stroking the sole of the foot produces the Babinski reflex.

During a orchidectomy, a man has a testicle removed.

The medical term for a black eye is circumorbital haematoma.

Medical experts say you should sleep on your right side to improve digestion.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being that there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.

There are over 100 million light sensitive cells in the retina.

The opposite of 'cross-eyed' is 'wall-eyed'.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Laudanum, a tincture of opium, was a common sedative in Victorian times.

Dr. W.S. Halstead was the first to use rubber gloves during surgery in 1890.

The human body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.

In the early Twentieth century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat epilepsy.

The human body contains about sixthy thousand miles of blood vessels.

Narcolepsy is the uncontrollable need to sleep.

The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.

The human body transmits nerve impulses at about 90 metres a second

Spread out, the walls of the human intestines would cover an area of about one hundred square feet.

The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.

There are 14 phalanges (finger bones) in a human hand.

In 1979 Dr. Christian Barnard was offered $250 000 by the American National Enquirer to perform a human head transplant.

Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9 000 'lead' pencils.

Cancer claims forty victims an hour in America.

In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, children were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet.

Podobromhidrosis is more commonly known as 'smelly feet'.

If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

Opium was used widely as a painkiller during the American Civil War. As a result, over one hundred thousand soldiers had become drug addicts by the end of the war.

Men have on average 10% more red blood cells than women

New Zealand's first hospital was opened in 1843.

One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.

The symptoms of haemophilia are never displayed by women, but can only pass it on. With men is the opposite.

If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.

When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle.

The Islands of Langerhans won't be found on a map, they're a group of cells located in the pancreas.

Every time you step forward, you use fifty four muscles.

A Rhinologist specialises in the human nose.

If you could remove all the space from the atoms that make up your body, you could walk through the eye of a needle.

A chromosome is larger than a gene.

The average human brain weighs 1.3 kg

During the fifteenth century, sick people were often dressed in red and surrounded by red objects because it was though to help them get better.

Eighty per cent of all body heat escapes through the head.

The Black Death claimed roughly forty million lives in the thirteenth century.

The human wrist contains more bones than the ankle.

Someone who grinds their teeth is a bruxomaniac.

In 1562 a man was dug up six hours after his burial, after he had been seen breathing by someone at the funeral - he lived for another 75 years.

Doctors 'bled' Louis XIII of France forty-seven times in one month in an attempt to cure his illness.

Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.

Physcrophilia is the sexual arousal by cold.

If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size.

There is more pigment in brown eyes than blue.

Nearly a quarter of all human bones can be found in the feet.

The ' funny bone' is not a bone but a nerve.

Most people blink about 25 000 times a day.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.

From fertilisation to birth, a baby's weigh increase 5 000 million times.

The woman of the Brazilin Apinaly Tribe bite their mates eyebrows during intercourse.

Thomas Wedders, the English circus freak, had a nose which was seven and a half inches long.

The ancient Greeks believed that boys developed in the right hand side of the womb and girls in the left.

The average height of a man in the Middle Ages was five feet six inches.

The human body has fewer muscles in it than a caterpillar.

Medieval recipe for the cure of acne 'the rout of dragon's made clean and cut into thin roundels and steeped for nine days in white wine and applied '.

Men are ten times more likely to be colour-blind than women.

An eighteenth century woman used only lard to 'wash' her face and hands and lived to the age of 116.

The liver is the largest internal organ weighing about 10.5 kilograms.

Human adults breathe about 23 000 time a day.

It requires 30 muscles to raise your eyebrows.

Nutmeg, if injected intravenously, is fatal.

The most common form of cancer is Skin cancer.

The Middle ear and the Pharynx are joined with the Eustachian tube.

The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend the little finger.

If you are a universal donor your blood group is type O.

When recognising someone's face, you use the right side of your brain.

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One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.

It was considered unfashionable for Venetian women, during the Renaissance to have anything but silvery-blonde hair.

Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use chloroform to combat pain during childbirth.

Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.

The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle. Henry Ford was the inventor of the assembly line, and Hitler used this knowledge of the assembly line to speed up production, and to create better and interchangeable products.

Atilla the Hun is thought to have been a dwarf.

The warriors tribes of Ethiopia used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears.

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.

There are over 200 religious denominations in the United States.

Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.

Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.

Theodor Herzi, the Zionist leader who was born on May 2 1860, once had the astonishing idea of converting Jews to Christianity as a way of combating anti-Semitism.

The women of an African tribe make themselves more attractive by permanently scaring their faces.

Augustus II, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland seemed to have a prodigious sexual appetite, and fathered hundreds of illegitimate children during his lifetime.

Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women's ears ought to be covered up because the Virgin May had conceived a child through them.

Hindus don't like dying in bed, they prefer to die beside a river.

While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.

The Ecuadorian poet, José Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue .. Of the English poet Lord Byron.

In 1726, at only 7 years old, Charles Sauson inherited the post of official executioner.

Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.

On 7 January 1904 the distress call 'CQD' was introduced. 'CQ' stood for 'Seek You' and 'D' for 'Danger'. This lasted only until 1906 when it was replaced with 'SOS'.

Though it is forbidden by the Government, many Indians still adhere to the caste system which says that it is a defilement for even the shadow of a person from a lowly caste to fall on a Brahman ( a member of the highest priestly caste).

In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.

The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

The word 'denim' comes from 'de Nimes', Nimes being the town the fabric was originally produced.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.

Idi Amin, one of the most ruthless tyrants in the world, before coming to power, served in the British Army.

Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of Cambridge.

Custer was the youngest General in US history, he was promoted at the age of 23.

It costs more to send someone to reform school than it does to send them to Eton.

The American pilot Charles Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle form Hermann Goering in 1938.

The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is saliva.

Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.

It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public .. naked.

John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy.

Adolf Eichmann (responsible for countless Jewish deaths during World war II), was originally a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Co. of Austria.

The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball.

John Winthrop introduced the fork to the American dinner table for the first time on 25 June 1630.

Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Bristol, England on 3 February 1821, was the first woman in America to gain an M.D. degree.

Abraham Lincoln was shot with a Derringer.

The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size.

When shipped to the US, the London bridge ( thought by the new owner to be the more famous Tower Bridge ) was classified by US customs to be a 'large antique'.

Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at Blenheim Palace.

In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.

Between the two World War's, France was controlled by forty different governments.

The 'Crystal Palace' at the Great Exhibition of 1851, contained 92 900 square metres of glass.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.

Sir Winston Churchill's mother was descended from a Red Indian.

The study of stupidity is called 'monology'.

Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree (his third wife) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.

More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance.

In 1911 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry , and Hill.

A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets.

During the seventeen century , the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replaced with a new one.

Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

The Great Pyramid of Giza consists of 2,300,000 blocks each weighing 2.5 tons.

On 9 February 1942, soap rationing began in Britain.

Paul Revere was a dentist.

The Budget speech on April 17 1956 saw the introduction of Premium Savings Bonds into Britain. The machine which picks the winning numbers is called "Ernie", an abbreviation, which stands for' electronic random number indicator equipment'.

Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.

The Russian mystic, Rasputin, was the victim of a series of murder attempts on this day in 1916. The assassins poisoned, shot and stabbed him in quick succession, but they found they were unable to finish him off. Rasputin finally succumbed to the ice-cold waters of a river.

Bonnie Prince Charlie, the leader of the Jacobite rebellion to depose of George II of England, was born 31 December 1720. Considered a great Scottish hero, he spent his final years as a drunkard in Rome.

The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, was born of the 29th December 1809. Apparently, as a result of his strong Puritan impulses, Gladstone kept a selection of whips in his cellar with which he regularly chastised himself.

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A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins.

South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to tenderise the meat.

There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game.

In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members.

King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.

Urine was once used to wash clothes.

North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on 15 December 1890. His bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted him moved to a 'more natural' site in South Dakota. Their campaign was rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull Park, South Dakota.

St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.

Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.

Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed.

People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.

Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test.

Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the Tenth-century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.

Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.

Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was buried sitting on his favourite horse.

The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

The Tory Prime Minister, Benjamin Disreali, was born 21 December 1804. He was noted for his oratory and had a number of memorable exchanges in the House with his great rival William Gladstone. Asked what the difference between a calamity and a misfortune was Disreali replied: 'If Gladstone fell into the Thames it would be a misfortune, but if someone pulled him out again, it would be a calamity'.

The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.

In the seventeenth-century a Boston man was sentenced to two hours in the stocks for obscene behaviour, his crime, kissing his wife in a public place on a Sunday.

President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol.

Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

Gorgias of Epirus was born during preparation of his mothers funeral.

The city of New York contains a district called 'Hell's Kitchen'.

The city of Hiroshima left the Industrial Promotion Centre standing as a monument the atomic bombing.

During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.

A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.

St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.

Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer (more commonly known as Satan) are the only 3 angels to be named in the bible.
According to Genesis all demons are angels who were cast out of heaven after Lucifer tried to take God's throne and several of the other angels bowed down and worshiped him.

Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.

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A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.

Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.

The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of 100 kilometres.

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre.

Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.

Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an Emperor of Japan.

An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day.

During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.

Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups

The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.

The cost of the first pay-toilets installed in England was tuppence.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas.

Mao Rse-Tang, the first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.

King George III was declared violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died.

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

For Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.

When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.

The richest 10 per cent of the French people are approximately fifty times better off than the poorest 10 per cent.

Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle

During World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian Army.

Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.

The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas Carols, judging them to be out of keeping with the true spirit of Christmas.

Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of Hoova.

Ralph and Carolyn Cummins had 5 children between 1952 and 1966, all were born on the 20 February.

John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.

Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.

Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.

The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.

The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death.

Admiral Lord Nelson was less than 1.6 metres tall.

John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.

Native American Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth. Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water.

Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.

Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.

In 1969 the shares of the Australian company 'Poseidon' were worth $1, one year later they were worth $280 each.

Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover the onset of baldness.

Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour during World War II, left school at the age of eleven.

At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

The Turk's consider it considered unlucky to step on a piece of bread.

The authorities do not allow tourists to take pictures of Pygmies in Zambia.

The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with mayonnaise.

Upon the death of F.D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman became the President of America on 12 April 1945. The initial S in the middle of his name doesn't in fact mean anything. Both his grandfathers had names beginning with 'S', and so Truman's mother didn't want to disappoint either of them.

Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

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for being a pile of useless information>>i have to admit its very interesting and informative..nice post

The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.


I must have a unusual large one....





By the way, did anyone notice that males in general are the only ones of species that sing, and females the most likely ones that bite ?...


btw, if you are bitten, is not really a surprise to me, that it is most likely by a German Shepard...


And a female at that...

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